Adjective attribution

Michael Rießler

Adjective attribution

Authors

Michael Rießler

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.B.

Keywords:

adjective, attribution, noun phrase

Synopsis

This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study contributes to historical linguistics by reconstructing the origin of new types specifically in the language contact area between the Indo-European and Uralic families.

Author Biography

Michael Rießler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.B.

Michael Rießler (1971) holds an MA degree in Scandinavian Studies from Humboldt University Berlin and a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Leipzig. Currently he is affiliated with the University of Freiburg where he leads a research group in Saami Studies. Among the areas he has worked in besides linguistic typology are documentary linguistics, language contact and the sociology of language.